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China's Military Integrates DeepSeek AI into Drones and Combat Vehicles

DeepSeek AI enables the PLA to generate 10,000 military scenarios in 48 seconds, enhancing battlefield decision-making and supporting China's push for AI-driven military and public security modernization.

  • People's Liberation Army procurement records show dozens of documents requested DeepSeek-based tools over six months, and on October 21 DeepSeek announced DeepSeek-OCR, signaling ongoing innovation.
  • The PRC frames DeepSeek's use as advancing 'algorithmic sovereignty', with military-civil fusion and state alignment making PLA deployment likely in 2025 to reduce Western supply reliance.
  • DeepSeek's architecture uses a modular reasoning core with attention-pruning and a smaller design that runs on Ascend, Kirin processors, and UAV edge platforms, cutting training energy by roughly 40 percent, NUDT reports.
  • Private firms have been awarded most PLA contracts for DeepSeek tools, with Shanxi 100 Trust securing a major contract using Huawei Kunpeng and Ascend processors for defense projects worth tens of millions.
  • Debate persists over DeepSeek's utility as PLA experts warn of latency, limited reproducibility, and small-sample testing, analysts flag code exposure and oversight risks, while proponents recommend a three-layer security regime despite compute and training chip constraints in the PRC.
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South China Morning Post broke the news in Hong Kong on Friday, May 16, 2025.
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